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IX Walkthrough

This page contains the complete Easter Egg walkthrough for IX, one of the four ZombiesMaps that are available at launch in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

After days of searching, the community has finally cracked the Easter Egg for IX, and boy does it have a rather shocking ending. In typical Zombies fashion, the IX Easter Egg is no walk in the park and is definitely quite time-consuming to achieve. With the main challenges coming in the form of obtaining the Death of Orion and simply just slaying a whole bunch of challenging zombies, there is no denying that it's going to take a few tries to complete this Easter Egg.

It’s important to note that before you start completing the IX Easter Egg, it is highly recommended that you complete the Easter Egg in the following order, as it will save you a bunch of running around in the future.

Before you begin undertaking any major tasks, the first thing you are going to want to do is complete threechallenges. In order to do so, simply run to the rolled-upbanners that are located around outer wall of the Arena. Knife the ropes holding them up and you’ll receive a challenge that will appear on the left side of your HUD.

Once the threechallenges have been completed, head to the center of the podium where a bowl will have spawned. You will need this bowl for a later part of the Easter Egg.

Should you have completed the challenges and picked up the bowl, you will also be rewarded with a Z-Harmony Pack-a-Punch pistol.

Your next task will be to complete the Pack-a-Punch for IX, while I won’t detail the exact specifics to do so, you can check out our complete IX Pack-a-Punch walkthrough here.

It is worth noting that you will need to re-pack your weapons until you receive Firebomb, as it is essential to completing the Easter Egg.

Be aware though, that building positiveaffinity while killing the champions during the activation of Pack-a-Pack is crucial, as it can save you a lot of time and effort.

Affinity is represented via the greenglowingthumbsup icon that is located above your characters health bar in the bottom left of your HUD. It is highly recommended that you maintain your positiveaffinity throughout the game, as it will play a big part in multiple sections of the Easter Egg.

You can gain affinity by killing champions, not receiving hit damage, getting kills with your special weapons, traps, refusing to collect the rewards after completing challenges by meleeing them, and even providing revives.

Negativeaffinity is represented by a redglowingthumbsdown, which can be achieved by throwing grenades into the crowds and getting hit by the fire within the Arena.

In order to construct the Deathof Orion, you are going to want to first build the AcidTrap, in which you’ll need to obtain three different parts.

The location of these three items will never change, so you can find the Chains, Gear, and Pot at the following locations.

Chains: The Chains can be found in the Temple. Simply look under the balconies in the corner and you will see the chainshangingon the wall next to some barrels of weapons.

Gear: The Gear can also be found in the Temple. Thanks to its size, the Gear is pretty hard to miss and can be found leaning against a corner, just below a skeleton in a cage.

Pot: If you had followed the first step in the guide, you will have already obtained the pot. However, should you have skipped over that part, I will list it once again.

To obtain the pot, you are going to want to complete three challenges. In order to do so, simply run to the rolled-up banners that are located around outerwalls of the starting Arena. Knifetheropesholdingthem up and you’ll receive a challenge that will appear on the left side of your HUD.

Once the three challenges have been completed, head to the center of the podium where a bowl will have spawned. You will need this bowl for a later part of the Easter Egg.

Next, you are going to need to obtain the StatueHead, which can be done by heading to the Danu-Ra Temple Entrance. In order to enter the temple, you must shoot the Brazier that is blocking the passage with the metal fencing.

With the Brazier now fallen over, travel up and onto the Bridge that connects with the Danu Tower and the Ra Tower. Simply look at the ground and you will notice that a burningpointer is aiming directly towards a tower in which the StatueHead spawned.

With four different towers available as a possible spawn location, the StatueHead can always been found in the room below the entrance. It is worth noting that the BurningPointer will spawn in the tower in which it is pointing too.

The four different locations that the StatueHead can be found are listed below.

Ra Tower: Located behind one of the cornerfirebraziers.

Danu Tower: Located within the water.

Odin Tower: Located within Odin Tower, you can find the StatueHead underneath the massive cauldron.

Once you have the StatueHead, it is time to obtain the ScorpionKey, which is surprisingly very easy.

You can find the location of the Acid Trap at the Ra Tower: Entrance. Once you have used the AcidTrap parts to complete the trap, place the StatueHead on the AcidTrapgrate that is located in the center of the trap. Now that it is placed on the grate, activate the AcidTrap and watch it melt the Statue’s Head.

Once melted, you will be left with the ScorpionKey.

Now that you have built the AcidTrap, it will now be unlocked and available to be used at every Acid Trap location across the map.

It is now time to collect the fourth and final item, the GoldVase. In order to obtain the GoldVase, simply raise your CrowdAffinity twice. As mentioned above, simply use those tactics to raise your affinity level.

Once you have successfully achieved CrowdAffinitytwice, you will receive a special message that will inform you that the GoldVase has been dropped within the Arena. Simply search the ground of the spawn arena until you find the GoldVase.

Finally, to obtain the DeathofOrion you are going to need to travel to the Arboretum, which is the lower floor of the TowerofDanu.

You are going to want to look for the secondtree from the stairs to the entrance. Upon closer inspection to the tree, you will notice a smallhole that is located on the tree’s surface. Simply melee the hole to insert the ScorpionKey.

Once you have placed the key in the hold, you will now want to place the GoldVase beneath the ScorpionKey to collect the acid. Simply wait an entireround, which you should then be able to pick up the vase. Use this acid that you have collected on the MysteryBox. Once it turns green, use the acid on the box and the next weapon you attempt to take will be the DeathofOrion.

By re-packing the weapon, you will be able to create the Serket’sKiss, which is an insanely overpowered weapon.

You will now need to obtain the pyre, in order to do this you are going to need GladiatorZombie. Once you have found one, begin to lure it to the Arena.

Once it is in the Arena, crouch and hide behind one of the burning wooden Braziers.

As he goes to attack by throwing his axe, he will end up hitting the brazier, which results in a piece of pyre coming lose.

Pick up the piece of pyre and begin to head to the largecauldron (Odin Tower: Cauldron) that is located below Odin’s Tower.

Place the piece of pyre on one of the largehooks and wait two to three full rounds for it to be completely ready. Once it begins to glowred, pick it up. We will use this later on during the Easter Egg.

For this step, you are going to want to achieve negativeAffinity. As mentioned above, negativeAffinity can be achieved by takinghitdamage, throwinggrenades and shootingintothecrowd, and even walkingthroughthefire that appears in the Arena.

Once you reach negativeAffinity, the crowd will begin throwing items into the arena. The items that the crowd is throwing is dung. Be sure to pick up the dung, as we will use this later on.

It is now time to find the skull, which can be found in the same Temple area as Pack-a-Punch. Upon entering the Temple room, you will notice that it is filled with hundreds of skulls.

Thankfully though, the Reddit community has provided a diagram of everypossiblespawnpoint in which the skull can spawn. To make things easier though, the skull you are looking for has a bluesymbol stamped on its forehead.

To dislodge the skull, you will need to equipyourspecialistweapon and interact with the wall. The skull should then drop to the ground.

It is here that you will find the SkullGrinder. While the SkullGrinder will always spawn in the FloodedCrypt, it can spawn in a number of different locations within the room. If you cannot find the SkullGrinder, simply look around the area, searching corners, corridors and any crevasses that it may be hiding in.

Once you have found the SkullGrinder, place the skull inside. Equip the Death of Orion and shootthegrinderthreetofivetimes with a chargedshot. You will be able to visually see the electricity flowing over the grinder if the shoots were successful.

You can now take the pyre, the dung, and the bonemeal to Zues Tower: Bath House. Use the bowl within the BathHouse to mix all of the ingredients together. The mixing process will take between twoand three full rounds. Once it has been successfully mixed, you will notice a greensmoke coming from the bowl.

Pick up this mixture and take it to DanuTower’s Arboretum and place it directly in the center of the room, on top of the ground that doesnot contain any water. You will now need to wait yet another two to three rounds for the mixture to be ready again. Once it is ready, it will begin to smokegreen again.

As mentioned above in the Pack-a-Punch section, you will require Firebomb for this particular part of the Easter Egg. If your weapon has Firebomb and once the mixture begins to smoke, you will need to get a Firebomb kill ontop of the mixture. However, it may take more than one kill to activate the next step, as it has proven to be quite glitchy among the community.

Once it has been activated, you will notice that bluecracks will have now spawned on the floor, beneath the mixture. You will now want to have your entire squad standing on the mixture. Be prepared for battle, as this next step can get very intense, very fast. So, have your shields ready.

Activating the next steps seems to be different amongst the Zombies community. Some teams have been able to simply interact with the mixture, while some have had interact with the mixture and then equip their specialist weapons.

Once you have interacted with the mixture, you will then be teleported into a brand-new room that is a spitting image of the Danu Tower’s Arboretum but colored in black and white. Upon appearing in the new room, you will quickly begin to be swarmed with zombies. As you begin to defend yourselves, begin to shoot at the threebrightredpods that appear in the center of the room, on the verytopofthe treetrunk. These pods will take quite a lot of damage to destroy, so make every shot count.

As soon as you destroy the first set of pods, a Max Ammo will occur, it is at this time that you need to make your way up to the next floor as quicklyaspossible. It is important that you attempt to by-passanyincomingzombies, as becoming trapped in the stair well is not ideal.

Once again though, in the center of the secondfloor, you will find threemoreredpods that are sitting ontop of the treetrunk.

Destroythesepodsas soon as possible.

Once destroyed, you will be prompted with yet another Max Ammo, so make your way to the topfloor as quicklyaspossible. Once outside, fight off the zombies and continue to destroy the finalthreeredpods that are locatedon the tree trunk.

If all of the redpods have been destroyed, you will then be teleported back to the original map.

To complete the next step, you will need to construct the BullShield. In order to do so, you will need to collect threeseparateparts. Each part has multiple different spawn locations for each part. The parts can be found in the following locations:

Part One

Ra Altar Room – Found directly infront of the MysteryBox, leaning against a wall.

Ra Altar Room – Found just to the right of the gong and between two large pillars.

Part Two

Zeus Altar Room – Found sitting on the baseof a statue.

Zeus Tower: Entrance – Found lyingin the hands of a statue that is elevated above the players head.

Zeus Tower: Bath Room – Found lying on topof an altar, next to some candles.

Part Three

Odin Altar Room – Found leaning against a barrel of spears.

Odin Tower: Entrance – Found on the bottomrow of the shields stand.

Odin Tower: Cauldron – Found leaning against a pillar, to the left of the twoshields that are hanging on the wall.

Once you have collected all three parts, you must travel to The Pit in order to use the Workbench. Once in The Pit, use the Workbench to craft the BullShield.

With the shield now equipped, you are going to want to use the shield’s gun to fire at four different bullsymbols that are randomly spawned around the map. Here are all of the possible spawn locations:

Arena – Located abovethegate that closed when first entered the Arena.

Odin-Zeus Bridge – Located on the Zeus Tower, you will notice the symbol while standing on the bridge.

Odin-Zeus Temple Entrance – Located on the Zeusside, you will find the part near the crackedarch that is hangingin ivy.

Danu Altar Room – Hidden inside the zombiewindow, facing the crowd.

Flooded Crypt – Located past the barricade where zombies spawn, you will find the symbol through an opendoor.

Temple – Located through one of the zombiewindows, that happens to be next to a burningtorch.

The Pit – Located aboveeyelevel, you can just make out the symbol through a crack in the wall.

Danu Tunnel – Located next to a zombiewindow, with a torch nearby.

Upon firing at the bullsymbols, they will eventually begin to glow. When the symbol begins to glow, a Champion zombie will be spawned. Upon killingtheChampion, it’s soul will be absorbed into the Rastatue. Repeat this step for all fourbullsymbols.

Once all fourzombies have been killed, a brightlazerbeam will shoot out of the Rastatueintoanobelisk.

Once the beam has disappeared, a bluesymbol will have appeared on the obelisk. It is important that before your team interacts with it, that you have pen and paper (or even your phone) to takenotes of the symbols that appear. Thanks to Reddit, here are the following symbols that may appear.

When you think you are ready, interact with the symbol and begin to takenotes. For this specific step, you and your team will be teleported into an alternate version of the RaTower. With your symbolsnoteddown, you must now match and kill the championzombies that appeared on the obelisk from bottomtotop.

You should avoidkillinganyzombies that do not match with your symbolsorder – regular zombies are fine - as you will be required to start this particular step over again.

Once you have killed the firstwaves ofzombies, you will be required to kill yet another set, however, this time you will need to follow the nextset of symbols that will appear on the obelisk.

To unlock the ArenaTrial, you will need to find and raisefour different lightningpoles that have been summoned across the map. You can find the fourpoles at the following locations:

Pole #1:Danu Tunnel – Upon exiting the FloodedCrypt, you can find the pole within the window to the right, that is halfcoveredin vines.

Pole #2:Odin Tunnel – Located above the largestatue, you will find the pole stickingoutof the ceiling.

Pole #3:CollapsedTunnel – Upon exiting the Danu-Ra TempleEntrance, you can find the pole within the window to the right.

Pole #4:The Cursed Room – Upon exiting The Crypts, you can find the pole within the nearestwindow to the left.

As you findeachpole, you will need to shootthem until they have successfully risenabovetheground, appearing within the Arena. Once all poles have been risen, you are going to want to re-pack the Death of Orion / Serket’s Kiss as you will need the Kill-O-Watt electricity ability for this specific step.

Return to the stonepillar that is located within the center of the Arena and have your entire team interact with it, you will then be teleported.

Make your way back to the Arena where you will find that there are fourelectriccircles on the edges of the Arena. You are going to want to use the Death of Orion to ensnareincomingzombies with the Kill-O-Watt ability near the lightningpole and killthem within the circle.

Once each one has been filledwithsouls, the electricity on the floor will disappear and the topsof eachlightningrod will be glowingandsparkingblue.

To activate the trial, simply go to the podium in the Arena and allocate a team member to eachglowingpillar. When ready, pressandholdallatthesametime until the blueorbturnsbrightred.

You will then be teleported to a new area, where you must kill all zombies and survive the round.

In order to complete the final trial, you will need to head to the Temple. Here you will find threeglowingsymbols hidden in different areas of the map. You must use the Death of Orion in order to shoot the threesymbols at a veryspecificangle. Here are the three locations that the symbols will spawn.

Symbol #1:Danu Tunnel – Located on one of the pillars, simply jump to shoot at it to achieve the correct angle.

Symbol #2:ThePit – Located on a brick wall, you will want to aim between a brokenwall and directlybeneaththe hanging chain to get the correct angle.

Symbol #3:The Crypts – Located on the crackedwall that is equipwithhangingchains. You should try aimingslightlytowards the rightcorner of the brokenwall, just beneaththechains to get the correct angle.

If you managed to correctly shoot all symbols correctly, the symbols will be glowing a brightblue.

Now that you have the symbols correctly activated, have you and your team stand on the largemetalgrate, while all interacting with the grate at the same time. You will now be teleported into the final trial where you must survive severalwaves of zombies, including multiple Blightfathers.

It is recommended that you use the Serket’s Kiss for this particular task, as it works great for attacking and stoppingenemies off into the distance, potentially being a complete life saver for your team.

You should also consider buildingtheshield, which is located directly behind you once you spawn. Upon completing the wavesofzombies, you’ll be teleported back and will need to begin preparing for the finalbossfight.

With all four trials completed, a redportal will now appear in the Arena. It is here that players will need to interact with the portal in order to be teleported to the finalboss arena.

Much like many other final boss fights in Call of Duty Zombies, WrathandFury bring a number of challenges and shouldn’t be taken lightly. Be prepared with perks, ammunition, and the correctweapons, as dying in the arena will result in the end of your Easter Egg attempt.

In order to defeat both Wrath and Fury, you must first killseveralwavesof zombies, gladiators, and even tigers.

When the elephants appear, it is important to note that they are wearingarmor. So, your first course of action will be to destroytheirarmor by aiming for the plates on the side. It is also recommended that in order to deal significant damage, that you alwaysaim for their heads.

As you defeat the firstelephant, the nextone will then spawnwithinthearena after several seconds.

Once you have defeated both Wrath and Fury, the final cutscene will play and you will have completed the IX Easter Egg.